Web Services

Supported Applications

Webservices in Action

Configuration Management

New Configuration Manager module in Drupal 8 has import and export features.

Version-control can be used to track configuration changes.

Configuration related information is stored in files.

New Fields in Core

Drupal 8 supports more field types in core.

Reference

Date

Email

Link

Telephone

We can add fields to nodes, blocks, comments, contact forms, taxonomy terms and users. We can also attach those field types to content types and also custom contact forms. Comments is not from the settings instead it is now available as a field.

Above discussed are only a few of the essential features of Drupal 8. There are lots of other updates and revamps in Drupal 8 that will likely be a big step forward for the progression and expansion of Drupal in the CMS world.